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Equanimity: The Collins dictionary definition of equanimity is “calmness of mind or temper; composure”.

Evenminded endurance is called titiksha in Sanskrit. I have practiced this mental neutrality.

The Greeks had a word for this: apatheia. It’s the kind of calm equanimity that comes with the absence of irrational or extreme emotions. Not the loss of feeling altogether, just the loss of the harmful, unhelpful kind. Don’t let the negativity in, don’t let those emotions even get started. Just say: No, thank you. I can’t afford to panic.

Equanimity is the state in which you can remain in control of yourself and be perfectly composed no matter what is happening around you. A lesser state than equanimity is compassion, which itself has value. A lesser state than that is empathy, which has value as well.

Equanimity also relates to a lack of struggle even when struggling, to effortlessness even in effort, to peacefulness even when there is no tranquility. When equanimity is well developed, we are not frightened of being afraid, concerned by being worried, irritated by being annoyed, pissed off by being angry, etc. Phenomena do not disturb space or e